Correction to: The false promise of firearms examination validation studies: Lay controls, simplistic comparisons, and the failure to soundly measure misidentification rates

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Gutierrez RE, Prokesch EJ. The false promise of firearms examination validation studies: Lay controls, simplistic comparisons, and the failure to soundly measure misidentification rates. J Forensic Sci. 2024;69(4):1334–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15531

The list of affiliations listed for RE Gutierrez has been modified; in that, the Academy Standards Board, Firearms and Toolmarks Consensus Body, has been removed. This comunication also corrects two inadvertent typographical errors from the publication. First, Reference 53 included a misspelling of Dr. Ryan Lilien’s name (“Lillien” as opposed to the correct “Lilien”). Second, Table 2 provided an incorrect value for the inconclusive rate on different source comparisons for the “Duez examiners” group (15% as opposed to the correct 13%). That typographical error did not, however, carry over into other figures and calculations (e.g. confidence intervals) provided throughout the remainder of the piece.

We apologize for these errors.